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Well, well well. Isn't this interesting. Seems you are not allowed to mention silent comedy mafia over at silentcomedians whatsoever. A poster over there was asking a question about rights issues regarding publishing stills, lobby cards, etc from silent comedies in books. I answered telling him the...

Hey Kids, Here's one for Halloween, ol creepy Conrad and Company in several tales calculated to keep you in ...........anxiety. The cool thing is they actually seem to be sending up expressionist acting styles, a German silent with a laugh or two, whoda thunk? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaEqSwe...

Louie Despres wrote:I know. I was thinking Walter Hiers in the middle, but wasn't sure.

Definitely not Walter Hiers, and he was dead by 33 anyhoo.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Louie Despres wrote:Another round for you all!

http://www.elbrendel.com/2013/10/el-with-3-at-party.html

You're on your own with this lot Louie. The heavyset guy looks a bit like Bert Roach, but zero bells ringin' on the rest of them.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Here's another one with Dunn, this time featuring him as a Chinese launderer. I have a note that it could be 'One Stormy Orphan'. Any thoughts?... http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj2dPzt7WQj1XIIOaNA8jPQ/videos ONE STORMY ORPHAN is what I have the same copy listed as, but have never found a listing ...

But getting back to Graham, I found this pilot of his a very interesting window into his writing ability. Chapman is always the odd man out in this regard, being overshadowed by his famous writing partner. Here he teams with Douglas Adams and Bernard McKenna, and yet the entire program has a defini...

Is the surviving version of Orchids and Ermine mostly complete, or is it a cut-down Kodascope version? The British Film Institute has a print from nitrate material that barely runs seven reels, but it is missing about half a reel from the original release length due to decomp and perhaps the Britis...

Well, once again, among the general doldrums and misinformation, a couple of laughs over at Nitratevile this weekend: Mike Gebert got after a member for deleting their posts in the 90th Anniversary Chaplin Mutual thread (Delete posts? How dare they! That’s his job!). Then, in a thread about Father B...

Post-Python, here's a pilot Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams did at the Beeb that apparently was not known to exist until recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vf-ctYnBPo



RICHARD M ROBERTS

ORCHIDS AND ERMINE It can be quite entertaining to watch feminist revisionism try to fit silent stars like Marion Davies (sleeping with a millionaire who made her a star) or Louise Brooks (slept with practically everyone and having every opportunity handed to her on a silver platter while blowing pr...